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Motivation

The Vice President of Columbia told this
actor that he was never going to make it in the business. The actor? - Harrison
Ford

His first book was rejected by 12
publishing houses and sixteen agents. - John Grisham

Turned down by a recording company saying
"We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out" They
were talking about the Beatles

Was told by his father that he would amount
to nothing and be a disgrace to himself and his family - Charles Darwin

Told by a music teacher "as a composer
he is hopeless" - Beethoven

Was told that "he couldn't sing at
all" Enrico Caruso

Fired from a newspaper because he
"lacked imagination and had no original ideas" - Walt Disney

Were told by Publishers that
"anthologies didn't sell" and the book was "too positive"Rejected a total of 140 times. The book?
Chicken Soup for the Soul. It now has 65 different titles and has sold over 80
million copies all over the world.

Told by a teacher he was "too stupid
to learn anything" Thomas Edison

Failed the sixth grade - Winston Churchill

Wasn't able to speak until he was almost 4
years old and his teachers said he would "never amount to much" -
Albert Einstein

Did poorly in school and failed at running
the family farm - Isaac Newton

Was not allowed to wait on customers in the
store he worked in because "he didn't have enough sense" - F. W.
Woolworth

Was cut from the high school basketball
team, went home, locked himself in his room and cried - Michael Jordan

Producer told her she was
"unattractive" and could not act - Marilyn Monroe

This book was rejected 18 times before it
was published. It then sold over one million copies the first year. The book
was Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

Auditioned for All My Children and got
rejected - Julia Roberts

Received 30 rejections and the author threw
it in the trash. Luckily his wife fished it out again and encouraged him to
resubmit it. The book was Carrie - the author Stephen King

In 1894, the president of the Royal
Society, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, predicted that radio had no future. The
first radio factory was opened five years later. Today, there are more than one
billion radio sets in the world, tuned to more than 33 000 radio stations
around the world.

He also predicted that heavier-than-air
flying machines were impossible. The Wright Brother’s first flight covered a
distance equal to only half the length of the wingspan of a Boeing 747. He also
said, “X-rays will prove to be a hoax.”

In the 6th century BC Greek mathematician
Pythagoras said that earth is round – but few agreed with him. Greek astronomer Aristarchos said in the 3rd
century BC that earth revolves around the sun – but the idea was not accepted.

In the 2nd century BC Greek astronomer
Erastosthenes accurately measured the distance around the earth at about 40,000
km (24,860 miles) – but nobody believed him.

In the 2nd century AD Greek astronomer
Ptolemy stated that earth was the centre of the universe – most people believed
him for the next 1,400 years.

In the early 20th century a world market
for only 4 million automobiles was predicted because “the world would run out
of chauffeurs.” Shortly after the end of World War II (1945), the whole of
Volkswagen, factory and patents, was offered free to Henry Ford II. He
dismissed the Volkswagen Beetle as a bad design. Today, more than 70 million
motorcars are produced every year. The Beetle became one of the best-selling
vehicles of all time.

The telephone was not widely appreciated
for the first 15 years because people did not see a use for it. In fact, in the
British parliament it was mentioned there was no need for telephones because
“we have enough messengers here.” Western Union believed that it could never
replace the telegraph. In 1876, an internal memo read: “This telephone has too
many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.” Even
Mark Twain, upon being invited by Alexander Graham Bell to invest $5 000 in the
new invention, could not see a future in the telephone.

Irish scientist, Dr. Dionysius Lardner (1793 –
1859) didn’t believe that trains could contribute much in speedy transport. He
wrote: “Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers ‘ would
die of asphyxia’ [suffocation].” Today, trains reach speeds of 500 km/h.

In 1936, Radio Times editor Rex Lambert
thought “Television won’t matter in your lifetime or mine.”

In 1943, Thomas Watson, the chairman of IBM
forecast a world market for “maybe only five computers.” Years before IBM
launched the personal computer in 1981, Xerox had already successfully designed
and used PCs internally… but decided to concentrate on the production of
photocopiers. Even Ken Olson, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, said in
1977, “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”

After the invention of the transistor in
1947, several US electronics companies rejected the idea of a portable radio.
Apparently it was thought nobody would want to carry a radio around. When Bell
put the transistor on the market in 1952 they had few takers apart from a small
Japanese start-up called Sony. They introduced the transistor radio in 1954.

In 1894, A.A. Michelson, who with E.W.
Morley seven years earlier experimentally demonstrated the constancy of the
speed of light, said that the future of science would consist of “adding a few
decimal places to the results already obtained.”

In 1954, a concert manager fired Elvis
Presley, saying, “You ought to go back to driving a truck.” In 1962, Decca
Records rejected the Beatles, “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is
on the way out.”In 1966, Time Magazine predicted, “By 2000,
the machines will be producing so much that everyone in the U.S. will, in
effect, be independently wealthy.” In that year too CoCo Chanel said about
miniskirts: “It’s a bad joke that won’t last. Not with winter coming.”

Sometimes a few decimal places make a
massive difference. Investment banks rely on computer models to direct trading
activity; in August 2007, Goldman Sachs’s hedge funds and other quant funds
were left exposed by a series of market swings, each of which their software
predicted would occur only once every 100,000 years. Goldman Sachs required a
$3 billion (€1.9 billion) bailout, with other banks joining the hand-out queue.

Perhaps the guy who got it wrong most was
the commissioner of the US Office of Patents: in 1899, Charles H. Duell,
assured President McKinley that “everything that can be invented has been
invented.”

A Indian thrown out of the train in south
Africa because he is black he stood up with all patience to say you thrown out
of this train i will throw you out of my country-Gandhi.

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